--- title: IBM API Connect Reviews meta_title: 'IBM API Connect Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 163 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how IBM API Connect works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.3 review_count: 163 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # IBM API Connect Reviews **Vendor:** IBM **Category:** [API Marketplaces](https://www.g2.com/categories/api-marketplace) **Average Rating:** 4.3/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 163 ## About IBM API Connect IBM API Connect is a complete, intuitive and scalable API solution that lets organizations implement a robust API strategy by building, exposing, securing, and managing an entire API ecosystem across multiple clouds. IBM API Connect is available on AWS Marketplace. As businesses embrace their digital transformation journey, APIs become critical to unlock the value of business data and assets. With increasing adoption of APIs, consistency and governance are needed across the enterprise.  API Connect allows businesses to get new features to market fast, maintain continuous availability, meet changing user needs, and spur innovation. ## IBM API Connect Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **versatile features** of IBM API Connect, benefiting from its balance of security and usability. (8 reviews) - Users appreciate the **high security and ease of API management** offered by IBM API Connect, simplifying their development process. (7 reviews) - Users appreciate the **user-friendly interface** of IBM API Connect, facilitating easy configuration and management of APIs. (7 reviews) - Users highly value the **integration capabilities** of IBM API Connect, enhancing API management across various platforms effortlessly. (7 reviews) - Users appreciate the **high security** features of IBM API Connect, ensuring safe and controlled API management. (7 reviews) - Users value the **seamless tools for API development** offered by IBM API Connect, enhancing their management experience. (6 reviews) - Users value the **API integration capabilities** of IBM API Connect, enhancing application management and deployment ease. (6 reviews) - User Interface (5 reviews) - Deployment (4 reviews) - Integrations (4 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users experience **API limitations** with slow performance and debugging challenges, affecting overall efficiency and usability. (3 reviews) - Users find the **pricing to be costly** for small businesses, making it less accessible for some users. (3 reviews) - Users find the **learning difficulty** high for beginners, highlighting a need for more tutorials and support. (3 reviews) - Users experience **performance issues** , particularly with latency during API calls and slow API editing in IBM API Connect. (3 reviews) - Users often experience **slow performance** with IBM API Connect, particularly during API imports and edits, affecting efficiency. (3 reviews) - API Issues (2 reviews) - Bug Issues (2 reviews) - Users find the **complex features** of IBM API Connect challenging, complicating the user experience and integration process. (2 reviews) - Users find the **costly features** of IBM API Connect to be a barrier, especially for small businesses. (2 reviews) - Users face **limitations in analytics data extraction** , which complicates API debugging and hinders performance insights. (2 reviews) ## IBM API Connect Reviews ### 1. I am a software developer having more then 8 years of experience, 2 plus years on APIC. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** it's very easy to use, the best thing is the OOB dev portal option. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** the searching option is missing in different pages e.g. catalogue pages, unable to search by the path. Can't open API directly from catalog, there should be a link. IP whitelisting option is also missing. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** handling different environments to publish APIs. exposing the APIs through the dev portal. ### 2. IBM API Connect - Still legacy **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Physical gateway Very stable Good Security features **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Not open-source friendly Very slow in providing new features Deployment in Cloud is complex **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** if you are looking for high throughput physical gateway, IBM APIC is great a choice. But if you have to do cloud deployment you might want to rethink if IBM APIC is the right tool for it. it is very complex to manage in cloud. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Protect and secure backend apis External facing apis hosted in IBM APIC Re-use of existing Datapower appliances. ### 3. IBM API Connect is Fantastic!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Márcio D. | Systems Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 05, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Features: API management, lifecycle, security and analytics. Works well within an Openshift cluster in the cloud or on premises. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Big sizing of the cluster Openshift or Kuberntes (hardware) to support IBM API Connect. **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** I like it a lot and I have encouraged the purchase and use of IBM API Connect because it is a great and mature Gateway suite, thinking about the main roles of API Management, Security, Portal and Analytics and also with the possibility of being able to manage more than one organization several portals and adherence to the OpenAPI standard and micro services. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** API's management, API design, versioning, developer portal segregated, security, separation of roles, layers, analytical reports, api economy feature and mainly scalability. ### 4. API Connect Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Easy for API Development with less coding involvement. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Installation and Upgrade are quite hard and challenging. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enable new business models and grow ecosystems. Achieve faster innovation via self-service access to APIs ### 5. IBM API & BPM Integration **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MALIK MUHAMMAD WASEEM S. | Wasi, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Nice to use IBM API and apps connect both are mature and finest product for integration. Currently wehave integrated multiple services with our applications like SMS etc. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** API is perfect and mature application yet not any major bug or issue reported products both products are outclass **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Highly recommended **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We facing several issues with 3rd party and unable to identify problems. After implementation we have a lots of logs and reporting to cater problems. ### 6. My Experience with IBM API has been a good one. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API connect provides a feasible and excellent way to register and design your APIs. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Nothing particular as such . The features I used were as per my expectation. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem of having grouped set of APIs and manage them in a secure way with benefits of great toll to design API and apply policies reducing adhoc development work. ### 7. There were a lot of issue in v5 recently strated with v10 so will give better feedback for that lat **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Easy gateway traffic management /red green **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Issue in searchin old api and product sometimes they don't show up on searching and have to find them manually **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Distribution of consumer on different gateways and segregating them ### 8. Working for IBM cloud integration using IBM API Connect **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** BIPLAB C. | Senior Project Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It is scalable and easy to integrate the different systems **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Logging facility which needs to customize **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration problems, from a benefits point of view It is very easy to integrate systems ### 9. API Connect **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep C. | Director - Hybrid Cloud Integration and Platform, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 10, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IBM API Connect is hybrid, can be deployed on Cloud and on-prem as the architecture of API Connect is based on Kubernetes architecture . API Connect can be deployed via OVA and using helm catalog making it cloud-native architecture. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** No dislikes at this point, had issues with v5 but the new version 2018 and v10 are what we are focusing on **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Easy to implement compared to other API Management tools, easily migrated to cloud-native architectures **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We leverage API Connect for an API Lead integration mindset, to expose API well address the microservices landscape. We are leveraging API for our Healthcare & life sciences, Financial, open banking, Healthcare Insurance solutions. ### 10. had an amazing experience working with API connect **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikitha M. | Service Owner **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2021 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** great support and detailed document. easy to use **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** high cost and strict support deadlines , which makes product roadmap difficult **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** security Gateway for digital apps and services ### 11. API connect to Retail API Management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alfonso B. | Gerente de arquitectura digital e integración, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The facility to deploy an API, the interoperatibility with diferents technologies **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Its kinda tricky to upgrade even to install. These processes were a big headache to us **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Exposes API's to external clients and costumers. ### 12. Great tool to build and publish our apis to end users **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** dharmendra h. | Principal Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2020 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Developer portal,Api manager,gateway instance and analytic instance. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Need more customize feature for osuth, oid which seemsbto be in new releases. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to solve complexity and reducing time in exposing our services as a APi ### 13. Good tool which needs little improvement **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It allows you to maintain many API hassle free and needs very less maintenance. Also it is good to have different portals for developing rules and maintaining APIs. Also security can be maintained in only one one place(API connect) instead of configuring in every service. And with less technical knowledge it can be used. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The tool is simple but for a newbie it is confusing. it should be further more simplified and made it easy. ans also can have better simplified tutorials from IBM. **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** It is a growing sector and it will make your life easier when you implement in your organisation if you are using lot of APIs. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** All the APIs are maintained through API connect which make the maintenance very easy for the support team. Also trouble shooting when any issue comes also becomes easy. ### 14. A true APIM Product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Punit K. | Integration Architect, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** APIC as an APIM product suite is a complete tool for API management and for microservices as well. I liked the control it gives to the governance and the analytics for product owners which is critical for product design and pricing. From a security and management point of view, I like the space management within the catalogs. The built-in policies security, mediation and transport are well defined. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** There could have been more policies in the security section, a little better UI because sometimes it becomes little too confusing to browse through the different features. There should be a recovery process for lost API secret for app consumer. If they forget to copy paste their client secret then its tough on them. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** The APIC is being used for enabling the interdepartmental communication by exposing the services as API which need a minimum transformation and primarily read-only in nature. Some of the services are also exposed to external partners to fetch data. ### 15. API connect review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 03, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The run time - datapower is the fastest and best run time engine **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Cloud dissociations , upgrade releases have so many bugs that we have to keep repeatedly using ifixes to upgrade **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Will recommend for api management **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** API management ### 16. APIC **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Of the 1700+ APIs we Service, of the 600+ teams developing those services, with all the traffic they can produce, the Management alone is fluid, functional, stable, easy to task, and monitor or track. Providing "Consumer" Applications and Backend Service Developers the space/time they need independently to develop and advace their services, develope their product, increase their feature stack, and provide changes at better rates than typicle 'client - server' relationships/infastructure/arcetecture. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Its a simplified service with simple demands and simple archetecture, that QUICKLY can become a 'beast' to move/migrate/manipulate when a known "feature" is redicovered, or new fundamental change is rolled out. Dramatic, Visible, and Orcastrational changes can impact consumers and developers with what appears to be a whole new Product rather than an updated more current and 'intune' verson. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying APIC as a Midileware service, to allow for Fontend and Backend service Developers to Change on independent timelines. Consumers can see opportunities in other products that are more adequate to their use-case and drive development better, because the ease of change is available. ### 17. I like it but... **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joakim A. | Integration Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It is every easy to understand how to create an API and also publish it. The documentation of API Connect is nice as well. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** It is very hard to debug a policy once it created. I would like to have the same possibility to debug as you get in the IBM Integration Bus, to be able to see the different headers and the message body. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** The way of making applications more accessable. ### 18. Used in production to desing implement strangler pattern **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** For me the best feature is that gateway is run on Datapower and it is reliable and easy to develeop and administer the product. Basing main deployment artefacts on open specifiaction and extending with custom stuff is a way to go. This enable implementation CI/CD processes. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Sometimes analytics gathering is broken and we have incosistent analytics data. Restart of manager VM and/or DP domain helps. Not a blocker for me but it would be nice if it would be fixed. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implemented strangler pattern by exposing large custom build Entreprise system as a set of well defined APIs so we can break the monolith into something more managable. ### 19. New in API Connect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** IT gives us analytics, makes exposing APIs to clients much easier, it gives us a central point for consuming and managing APIs **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The fact the whenever we have to upgrade datapower, we have to delete the gateway server from API connect then re add it again after the datapower upgrade. I wish this dependency will be removed in the future as it is a bit disruptive and doing firmware upgrades should be as simple and transparent as possible **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We purchased API Connect so we have a central point to manage APIs. It also made it easier for us to expose our APIs to consumers. ### 20. API Connect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Viji E. | VP, IT Solution Engineering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Ability to API enable our core assets, and sunset several other API tools such as API Manager, APIgee, WSRR. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** When we started implementing API Connect, there was no elegant way to just do discovery the services. I believe my tech team has been working to get that issue resolved. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Democritizing data; breaking monoliths into micro services to enable agility. ### 21. Recently installed API Connect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Love that we are moving to a unified platform to house all of our organizations API's. Certainly beats trying to determine whether an API already exists. We have just begun to roll this out across the organization and it has been incredibly well received. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Like anything it takes time to roll out any new technology - while we are moving it would be great to move much quicker. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Providing us visibility and accessibility for our APIs managed in one place. 2. Benefits - everyone wants to use it and adoption has been incredibly high. ### 22. Best way to go to Open Bank **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan Carlos C. | IT architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It fits perfect for all the Bank industry in order to offer data as a service **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The cost, it a long way to get the ROI, for middle size bank it is an expensive bit **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** B2B businees is being a challenge for banks, it has to be a easy way to get our customers connected ### 23. Feedback **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** yugesh n. | Integration Platform Owner, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** security and ease of use, allows developers out of Integration to do integration **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** in v5 you donot have too much control, you have to keep calling IBM, and the response time is not too good. No Load balancer groups On APIM **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Go with the Latest Version **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** allowing feature teams ro do their own integration ### 24. Api connect review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It is a great api management solution with rich set of management and self service features. With Datapower as runtime it fits well in on prem for exposing in house APIs to internal and external developers. We are moving towards v2018 on kubernetes platform and we hope it will add more values. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Installation on API Connect on VMWare OVA as well as on kubernetes is not properly documented. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Faster development by exposing the APIs. Service availability and discovery. Centralized self service portal for multi cloud environments. Organization brand reach. ### 25. Lead Architect of API Connect in the company **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vladimir I. | Principal Integration Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Security capabilities, multe-tenancy capability of the portal, hybrid deployment capabilities of the runtime component **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** There are no features to dislike especially when it is completely re-architected in the 2018 version with underlying microservices architecture **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Multi-tenancy no the portal, API life cycling, role based development, unified security Use Cases implementation ### 26. Excellent enablement team **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** they were able to understand the specific requirements of our organization and were able to customize the product to suit the security model including the authentication and authorization, sso and use out=r LDAP for all this **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** had bugs when the install was happening, but the same were resolved in a timely manner and lot of attention was provided by the product development team **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** we were able to expose several APIs to the larger audience, reduce redundancy, were able to restrict the api usage, monitor the analytics ### 27. Love the product except few areas which can be improved **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akhil H. | Global Technology Lead- IBM Application Platform and API, Information Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** DataPower Gateway, ease of use, extensible **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Limited monitization support, no direct migration path available from v5.0.5 to 2018.x **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** APIConnect is a good product with DataPower as a security gateway **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Exposing legacy functions as api's for faster time to market. IBM APIConnect has helped us stay ahead in the race ### 28. Best platform to create APIs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jorge g. | architect of integration, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The ensemble area is easy to create an API in less than 15 minutes. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** sometimes when I publish a product in API Gateway, it is sometimes slow. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Afterwards, we had many ways to connect with the banking core, but now we have one way to get specific data. ### 29. Quick and easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** John B. | Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The ease and speed that you can develop new APIs is amazing. The interface is very user-friendly and makes sense from a software development standpoint. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Setting up the system locally took some learning. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Quick and easy creation of APIs for microservices. ### 30. API Connect and open banking **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** We moved our API management from a custom approach to an industrial product like API Connect and that's when we thought about all the features we were missing with our previous product. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** What I don't like very much is the statistics UI but we moved all of our logs to syslog. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** With PSD2 european directive all the banks will have to expose their client's data to other third parties. We are using IBM API Connect to fullfil this requirement. ### 31. Great functionality but so-so customizability **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** We required the functionality of an API Manager and API Connect answered 95% of all our requirements **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Extremely difficut to customize the UI that we had to work with an IBM partner to modify it to suit our requirements **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Its functionality is ex ceptional, but check the price and the ease of customization. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were able to monetize our financial functionality and use a single platform for all our internal applications requiring access to our core systems ### 32. A market leading product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Easy to configure, secure and expose APIs Good set of security features out of the box **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Does not fully support our change implementation strategy for product upgrades No native HSM support other than Luna (which doesnt support HA) We have had to write extensions for native features not currently available in v5 **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Open Banking APIs exposed to regulated TPPs Interal APIs exposed to key channels (e.g. internet banking) Ease of onboarding Data insights and market intelligence ### 33. API Connect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** API Connect is easy to use and makes a non technical person able to use it. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The product is quiet good there isnt anything so far that I see as a problem **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Try it you will love it **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** API management is always a pain in a software engineering firm like ours, and I want my developers to be able to hit the ground running and not spend too much time doing non core stuff. ### 34. API Cloud Connect **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** lamont k. | Manager of Service Engineeering, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I am fairly new to this space and this service is very user friendly. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** I do not have any dislikes at this time. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are the first to utlize the cloud in the Opthamology space. ### 35. WOrks like a charm **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Frank M. | IT Business Lead IoT, Maritime, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The easy inplementation, integration with other applications and back-end applications **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** None at this poingt since we just went live with it **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** The easy implementation enables us to bring new API's live easily ### 36. IBM API Connect **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sean M. | IT Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I liked the intergration of multiple systems and the ability to have info availble for data sharing. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** The time that it takes to get the data avilable for sharing amongst teams **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helathcare. ### 37. api connect product review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sridhar K. | Lead integration architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** it is based on datapower . same product can go on the cloud and on prem **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** no intelligent context sensitive search no tam/tfim integration **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Vehicle apis ### 38. API Connect- Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** MUlti Cloud deployments Extensive support for plans, spaces,catalogs. Flexible archtiecure of key components **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Migration from one version to another is not seamless 2018 version installation is not straight forward **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** I would recommend API Connect due to its strong gateway & Developer Portal features. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Expose API's to Partners & Developers and Internal consumers. Centrailized discovery of API's partner management ### 39. New generation complete API Suite **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** developer friendly , easy to use , out of box analytics , cloud native,auto scalling and elasticity **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** missing auto healing, client side load balancing, still auto scalling and elasticity is maturing **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** easy to use and very good compared to other products in the market **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** exposing backend services as APIs, rate limiting , security, SSO ### 40. IBM API Connect Rocks **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It has helped our organization start a transformation and will continue to for many years in the future **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Like any enterprise system this is overly complicated to install and get started **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Moving our middleware stack from a custom home grown to a platform that enables us to the use a lifecycle approach ### 41. Great product for exposing your APIs **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** It is intuitive. It has range spectrum of embedded product that is needed. I like API security configuration options. Developers portal is intuitive. Easy to install. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Security token is not easy to integrate in solution. Needs lot of configuration. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** REST API exposure for external consumption. ### 42. In business with a great business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Granville E. | CEO, Construction, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 10, 2018 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The ability to handle things with ease. Great directional assistance with easy to understand steps. IBM is always looking for better ways of perfecting it's products. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** I have no dislikes at all. My experience has been one of gaining knowledge and experience inside the Artificial intelligence world. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great security for my business ### 43. Hybrid deployment and new architecture **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** New architecture with the Docker. Ability to deploy to the multiple clouds. Support for various of loads and security features. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Not enough information how to deploy it to the some third party clouds. **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Plan cloud or local installation **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Exposing APIs in public sector ### 44. My life with APIC **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Easy deployment of RESTful APIs, easy pont of security enhancement enhanicing datapower infratsructure **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** unreadyness of the product support cases (usally 3/5 in parallel) are not always solved **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** start with Version 2018, not V5 **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** providing API universe to internal and external customers ### 45. Great API Management product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The capacity to integrate easily with microservices developed on NOde.js **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** It was difficult to implement it.with a In-house team. **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Great specially for those that do not have moved completly to the cloud. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integration with our legacy systems ### 46. Great product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Works well in our envrionment. We hav ebeen using thisn product for the past 5 years and works well **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** There is nothing we don't like about this product. **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are suing this product for managing APIs performance ### 47. API Connect Amazing Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 12, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** I love the power an security included in the product. Also it has an amazing monetization control. Its a helpfull tool for Digital Transformation. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** by now, i don't have any dislike on this product. ... **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Digital Transformation ### 48. Ease of implementation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** The time to write a new API is faster than traditional coding **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Product still seems still have many bugs as it grows and develops **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are exposing legacy services as up to date rest APIs ### 49. Integrate on the Go **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Seamless creation & Management. Ease of using a sophosticated technology **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** It is difficult to propose it to the customers as the price is a little on the higher side **Recommendations to others considering IBM API Connect:** Go for It **What problems is IBM API Connect solving and how is that benefiting you?** Agility Robustness Connectivity ### 50. Good Product but need propoer documentation **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 11, 2019 **What do you like best about IBM API Connect?** Redily available OEMs for installation. Available developement starter kit. **What do you dislike about IBM API Connect?** Supportx only Java and NodeJS developement. 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